SpiderMAV Drone Shoots Webs for Perching and Stabilization

At IROS last week, researchers from Imperial College London’s Aerial Robotics Laboratory, led by Mirko Kovac, presented SpiderMAV, a drone equipped with Spider-Man-style web shooters to help it create stable perches wherever it needs to. SpiderMAV was inspired by a kind of orb-weaver spider known as Darwin’s bark spider, which